Tech Lead (Russian speaker) / Remote
Job Title: Tech Lead
Location: Remote, strictly on New York time (EST/EDT)
Job Type: Full-time
At Whizz, we are transforming mobility for delivery drivers, breaking down vehicle access and ownership barriers. We are looking for a Tech Lead to own our entire codebase and lead a small engineering team.
About the Role
As a Tech Lead, you own the architecture and code quality of all Whizz systems: the PHP core and billing, the ERP, the client area, the mobile app and the People platform. You review every change before it reaches production, own the database architecture, and make the team faster with AI tools. The role is hands-on and reports directly to the founder.
Responsibilities
- Own the architecture and technical roadmap of all Whizz systems.
- Review every pull request before merge and keep a clear review standard.
- Design and maintain the database architecture across MySQL and PostgreSQL.
- Own Docker images, deployments and environments.
- Drive AI-assisted development across the team: agent instructions, prompts, rules for reviewing AI-generated code.
- Turn product requirements into technical tasks and mentor backend, frontend and mobile developers.
- Lead incident response and ship root-cause fixes.
Our Stack
PHP 8.3 / ProcessWire backend and cron workers on MySQL; ERP and client area on Nuxt 3, Vue 3 and Quasar; Fl